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Re: Simple Emacs for rescue or quick edits?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Simple Emacs for rescue or quick edits?
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:13:10 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Pascal J. Bourguignon [2013-07-31 00:40:13 +02:00] wrote:

> And when I say quick, I mean quick: almost 1/4 the boot time of vim:
>
> [pjb@kuiper :0.0 ~]$ time echo :q |vim
> real    0m2.027s

> [pjb@kuiper :0.0 ~]$ time emacs -q -nw -e 'kill-emacs'
> real    0m0.573s

You should probably drop caches before running those tests.

    $ sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'

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